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Ladies and gentlemen, the guy who for years was the editor in chief of the best selling newspaper in Germany (and in Europe)

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Politicians and big business alike have realised that, no matter what they do, they will not face accountability. So they back genocide and pump up prices and scapegoat minorities, because they know they can without consequence.

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At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 23 hours ago • 217 comments

DHS really played themselves by posting possibly the hardest photos on the planet to go with this tweet

submitted 20 hours ago • 568 comments

Taking several steps back from the toilets / SC brouhaha... One thing it's clear that anti-trans campaigners didn't factor in was how the manifestation of their segregationist ideology will look to people who haven't drunk the koolaid. They'd got so high on their own supply... 1/

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

A term that just means being awake to injustices now has negative associations. The implication is fairly obvious: being asleep is the desirable quality. Being passive, unthinking, indifferent. The very act of caring becomes bad. There's already a term for that: Orwellian. Asleep is awake.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Henry Cuellar is anti-abortion and anti-trans. Vicente Gonzalez is anti-trans. Seth Moulton is anti-trans. Tom Suozzi is anti-trans. It's all the same fight

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

i see a lot of weird weapons/ammo for sale and i'm not sure where you would buy something like this as a civilian. you have to be extra stupid or extra evil to even conceive of civilians having crowd control weapons that the police use

submitted 7 hours ago • 22 comments

Because they simply refuse to accept the fact that cops are not on their side. It gets worse: The Israelis have assassinated Palestinian and Lebanese journalists, and this has made absolutely no difference to the wider media narrative on trusting the IDF as a valid source of information.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

There is no social justice without disability justice. Fascism feeds off ableist & eugenicist undertones within society. Disabled people have been screaming about the risks for years and were often ignored. Include us in resistance efforts.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I really do love how AI evangelists have thoroughly lost their minds and completely bought into their own flim flam horseshit

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Even when it's a white journalist- Even when there's footage of it happening- Even when someone in that footage says what just happened- News outlets still can't bring themselves to say that "a cop shot someone".

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

This did not get enough attention - do check out this amazing piece of Scottish trans history!

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Hind koudary reporting on the chaos & lawlessness around Israels aid distribution operation. The way to prevent this is to flood Gaza with aid, but Israel wants this chaos, and that's why they're only allowing a tiny amount of aid in.

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This amounts to the UK supporting Israel's blockade of aid. If they won't protect a UK registered boat captured in international waters, they indicate that they believe that Israel has the right to impose the blockade. Why?

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Tonight!

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"What type of government is that? People are being swept up and torn from their families, and I feel it's my responsibility as an artist to use this moment to speak up for all oppressed people, for black people, for Latino people, for trans people, for the people in Gaza."

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In AUSTIN!

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Reporters Without Borders says there have been 27 attacks on journalists in LA so far, 24 by LEO, 3 by others. That's a lot. If you haven't seen it, there's video of an officer appearing to target this Australian correspondent while she's on air. rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-c...

submitted 10 hours ago • 13 comments

Anyone who has ever downplayed the threat of the anti-vaccine movement has either not been paying attention or has been bamboozled.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the kind of thing that is going to happen constantly now that we have an unaccountable masked gang with complete impunity: Random scammers, stalkers and criminals are just going to pretend to be ICE, because why not?

submitted 15 hours ago • 52 comments

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

submitted 53 days ago • 21 comments

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

submitted 11 hours ago • 78 comments

It's crazy to me how the country that celebrates the Boston tea party as a patriotic event is always aghast at property destruction during a protest.

submitted 17 hours ago • 33 comments

What’s darkly funny about this is that the Times and Telegraph’s recent desperate advertising campaigns are because their few remaining readers are dying off. Newspapers are a relic of a former time:

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Anybody who thinks that Bluesky is a bubble where people just reinforce each others’ opinions should try sharing an opinion on Bluesky.

submitted 21 hours ago • 542 comments

Francesca Albanese: "Israel has absolutely no authority to intercept and stop a boat like this, which carried humanitarian aid.. to the people of Gaza. You know, there should be state navies breaking the siege instead of a boat of volunteers risking their lives". Spot on.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

I think we’ve reached a point where most major news media has decided to accept the fabricated right wing fantasy world as realer than the real one, and the speed at which this has happened is utterly appalling and horrifying. It’s extremely hard to take in, even if it was a long time coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"A trade union is able to protest peacefully within the law and to employers when material is presented on campus which it believes attacks the human rights of others": www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Police just declared an unlawul assembly at MDC over a small group of people holding signs, praying with clergy, and a Mariachi band.

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

submitted 15 hours ago • 285 comments

They don't even get their thirty pieces of silver.

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The American Medical Association’s journal of Pediatrics now advises the public that long covid is more common than the second most common chronic childhood disease, asthma. Meanwhile teachers and principals are trying to psychopathologize my parent friends for sending their kids to school masked.

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Here's the thing: Trump and people like him know that saying they want a civil war is a non-starter. So they talk around it by essentially saying that the war is inevitable if "The Left" refuses to "stop" (whatever it is that they want us to stop doing at the moment). That washes them of guilt.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

If your first instinct to a community defending their friends, families, and neighbors from murderous fascists looking to kidnap them is to say, "Maybe they should be more polite about it," you're probably not on the side you think you are.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

“Clarity.” 🤦🏻‍♀️ Number of Code of Practice paragraphs required to explain the operation of single-sex services before the Supreme Court ruling: 20 www.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/defaul... Number of paragraphs required after the Supreme Court ruling: 69 www.equalityhumanrights.com/equality/equ...

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments